Linked-Data: The Next Frontier

My presentation examines how we stand on the cusp of a massive new data windfall, in the form of library and other cultural heritage databases. What makes this data different from earlier influxes of big data is that it is, for the most part, linked: with a single person ID, I can (or will soon be able to) pull data from a large number of different repositories. Not only does this evolution in data management mean that digital corpora will no longer be siloed off from one another, but it also means that scholars will be able to leverage massive collections of data for their projects.